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Puck 459

NEW VOTING INCENTIVE! 20th ANNIVERSARY BONUS COMIC!
That’s right! Puck marks its 20th anniversary this September! Twenty years ago this comic began publishing in the McMaster Silhouette! Some of you weren’t even alive back then! To celebrate, I’ve put up a bonus comic strip this month which serves as a little homage to the very first Puck comic. Vote for Puck on TWC to check it out!

This strip reveals the fact that yes, Colin does teach at the same school that Daphne goes to. I personally doubt this ever causes any real tension, mainly because I suspect that neither ever actually acknowledges the other in any capacity.

And as a veritable veteran of prom supervision, I can reliably relate that yes, supervising prom kinda sucks. But it’s a special kind of sucks that almost verges on rewarding. It’s a weird experience, attending a special night that is not your special night in any capacity – to be surrounded by other people’s excitement. It’s like attending the wedding a total stranger’s wedding.

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I do love Lynn Johnston’s work, honestly. Her balance of narrative, humor and awe moments was natural enough to feel effortless, but it really was a balancing act. If I can manage a fraction of that, I’m happy.

One of these days I need to get my hands on some of Johnston’s work to study it. Schulz thought very highly of her. From what I can tell, I don’t think that Schulz really liked any comics after Walt Kelly passed away, aside from Johnston and perhaps a couple others.

i beg to differ – supervising a prom might suck, but watching daph reducing her blonde competition to tears? now thats something i´d pay to watch!
also, yay for phoebe´s gravity-defying top, just where do you get all the ideas for her clothes? i hope daph will get such an awesome outfit for her big day as well 😉

This Phoebe outfit, I have to say, is actually physically possible. Unlike the last one. Generally speaking, I get the ideas from her clothes by imagining real clothes and just cutting holes out of them. But this one takes a slight bit of inspiration from Imperial design in Star Wars. Not sure why. I just thought it looked cool.

If this takes place in PA, I can guarantee that a background check would be required. The most innocuous tasks involving the school demands that you pay for your own investigation. I think that sucks harder than the aforementioned Dyson.

I can assure you that the same laws apply here. And even worse, the background check required by the school board is a deep dive type that goes beyond convictions and reports on everything you were ever charged with, or if you’ve ever had any sort of run-ins with the police. If you have, then forget it. And yes, you have to pay for the check yourself. I am skipping over this legal roadblock for the sake of narrative convenience, but it IS a thing.

When I read the word “Dyson” I immediately think of Dyson Swarms (also called “Dyson Spheres,” especially in older science fiction). My mind wanders to other sorts of megastructures –Ringworlds and Rama shells and the like. What would a comic strip on the Ringworld be like? Perhaps “Lil’ Abner” should have been set on a Dyson Swarm. Perhaps Pogo should have taken place on some sort of exotic outer world.

Phoebe has a very nice looking sideboob and front boob. I’m sure the young ladies will be completely thrilled with Phoeb’s supervisory presence and feel not at all threatened. Or jealous. Or overshadowed.

they will call her a slut to her back and snicker at her and probably try and embareass her which probably wouldnt bother her at all, just better hope her dad never shows up… we dont need rufficoladas at a hs prom

I’ve always had an extremely strong sense of smell, so perfumes and colognes have always been overbearing to my nose. Which makes dating unpleasant at times, since I’m wrinkling my nose when my date is wearing perfume when I forget to tell her about it.

Personally, I think that people are fine after a shower and deodorant. It’s cleaning off bad smells, rather than trying to cover them up.

“It’s like attending the wedding a total stranger’s wedding.”
Are you speaking from experience when saying this, EG?
Because it sounds like you’re talking from experience.

Since we don’t have anything *resembling* a prom here, I can’t say whether or not I’d care to go to one.
So now I’m curious how terrible it will be for Daphne and the others.
…You may or may not have me hyped about this arc.

I am in year 27 of working at the same high school and I can relate to the joy of supervision of dances — I must have missed on the “reward” portion at some point. I have now seen the children of some of my first students graduate — it’s a wild ride.